xxxi, 543 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-461)

Foreword to Hermeneia -- Author's foreword -- Editor's note -- Introduction : Preliminary remarks -- Part one : The text of the Book of Jeremiah. The relation of M and G ; the nature of G : preliminary remarks -- The contrastive sequence of chapters in G and M -- The contrast in translation of the two halves of G -- The translation technique of the old Greek -- The date of the old Greek translation -- The origin of the proto-Septuagintal and proto-Masoretic texts ; the nature of the proto-Septuagintal text -- The nature and date of the proto-Masoretic text -- The later Greek versions -- The Vulgate (V) -- The Peshitta (S) -- The Aramaic Targum (T) -- Part two : Analysis of the literary development of the Book of Jeremiah. Preliminary remarks -- History of discussion -- A plausible theory for the growth of the book of Jeremiah : preliminary remarks -- The first two scrolls, and the identification of the first scroll : chapters 1-6 -- Further discussion of the initial form of the second scroll : chapters 7-10 -- A fresh scroll in 594? -- The inclusion of four prose passages -- Three small sequences now found within chapters 21-24 -- The preservation of other early material now found in chapters 10-20 -- A separate, hopeful scroll : the development of chapters 26-36 -- The oracles against foreign nations ; the addition of 25:15-29 and 30-38 -- The narrative of the final months of Jeremiah's career, chapters 37-44 -- Later additions to the collection -- Part three : The prophet Jeremiah. Preliminary remarks -- Section A : The life and times of Jeremiah. Birth of Jeremiah (627-626) ; Josiah's reform (622) -- The septennial reading of Deuteronomy -- A propagandist for Josiah (615-609) ; the Battle of Megiddo (609) -- From the Temple Sermon (609) to the Battle of Carchemish (605) ; the first scroll -- The Babylonian invasion of Philistia (604) ; the drought begins ; the king burns the scroll (601) -- The word of irrevocable judgment ; the second scroll ; the counter-liturgy of drought and battle ; the declaration of celibacy and the smashing of the flask ; the opposition of the optimistic prophets and the first confessions (601-600) -- Babylon renews the pressure on Judah ; the first siege of Jerusalem (599-597) -- The Jerusalem Conference and its consequences (594) -- The second siege of Jerusalem (588-587) -- The new covenant : the flight into Egypt (587) -- Conclusion -- Section B : The sources on which Jeremiah drew : the data. Preliminary remarks -- Jeremiah's reminiscences of the traditions in Genesis -- Jeremiah's reminiscences of Moses and to material in Exodus -- Possible parallels in Leviticus and Numbers -- Possible parallels in Joshua and Judges -- Jeremiah's reminiscences of events in the time of Samuel -- Jeremiah's reminiscences of events during the kingship of David and Solomon -- Jeremiah's reminiscences of the ninth-century prophets -- Jeremiah's reminiscences of the eighth-century siege of Jerusalem -- Jeremiah's dependence on the eighth- and seventh-century prophets : preliminary remarks -- Jeremiah's dependence on Amos -- Jeremiah's dependence on Hosea -- Jeremiah's dependence on Isaiah -- Jeremiah's dependence on Micah -- Jeremiah's dependence on the seventh-century prophets : Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk -- Relations between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy : preliminary remarks -- Relations between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy 32 and 33

Deuteronomy 12-26 as background for Jeremiah's poetry -- Deuteronomy 12-26 as background for Jeremiah's prose -- Material in the prose of Deuteronomy outside chapters 12-26 as background for Jeremiah's poetry and prose -- Jeremiah's dependence on the Decalogue and on the Curses : were these parts of proto-Deuteronomy? -- Two instances of dependence between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy : in which direction? -- Instances in which late Deuteronomy appears to be dependent on Jeremiah -- The shape of proto-Deuteronomy -- The question of Huldah's oracle -- Relations between Jeremiah and the Psalms : preliminary remarks -- Psalms on which Jeremiah drew : cases of fair certitude -- Mutual borrowing? : Psalm 107 -- Psalms dependent on Jeremiah -- Jeremiah's dependence on the wisdom tradition, especially Proverbs -- Section C : The person and proclamation of Jeremiah. Preliminary remarks -- The prophet Jeremiah : his tradition and his role -- Jeremiah's use of language -- The content of Jeremiah's proclamation -- Section D : The impact of Jeremiah on his own and later generations. Preliminary remarks -- Jeremiah's impact on his own generation -- Jeremiah's impact on Ezekiel -- Jeremiah's impact on Lamentations -- Jeremiah's impact on the exilic Deuteronomists -- Jeremiah's impact on Job -- Jeremiah's impact on Deutero-Isaiah -- Jeremiah's impact on Trito-Isaiah -- Jeremiah's impact on the remainder of the Isaianic corpus -- Jeremiah's impact on Zechariah 1-8 -- Jeremiah's impact on the remainder of the prophetic corpora -- Jeremiah's impact on Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles -- Jeremiah's impact on Daniel and on the Deuterocanonical Books -- Jermiah's impact on the Pseudepigrapha -- Jeremiah's impact on the Qumran literature -- Jeremiah's impact on the New Testament -- Commentary. 26:1-24 : The Temple Sermon and its consequences -- 27:1-22 : The yoke of the King of Babylon -- 28:1-17 : Jeremiah's confrontation with Hananiah -- 29:1-23 : A letter to the exiles -- 29:24-32 : Shemaiah opposes the message of Jeremiah -- 30:1-31:40 : The book of comfort -- 32:1-44 : Jeremiah buys a field -- 33:1-13 : God will rebuild the houses of Jerusalem -- 33:14-26 : A future for Levitical priests and Davidic kingship -- 34:1-7 : The fate of Zedekiah -- 34:8-22 : Breach of faith concerning slavery -- 35:1-19 : The example of the Rechabites -- 36:1-32 : The king burns Jeremiah's scroll -- 37:1-44:30 : The final months of Jeremiah's career -- 45:1-5 : Yahweh's word to Baruch -- 46:1-51:58 : The oracles against foreign nations -- 46:1-12 : Egypt has stumbled and fallen -- 46:13-28 : Egypt will go into exile -- 47:1-7 : Philistia will be washed away -- 48:1-47 : Moab will be brought down -- 49:1-6 : Rabbah will be destroyed, and the Ammonites dispossessed -- 49:7-22 : Edom will fall -- 49:23-27 : The Aramean cities will panic and be deserted -- 49:28-33 : Both nomadic and sedentary Arabs will be defeated -- 49:34-39 : Yahweh's sovereignty reaches even to Elam -- 50:1-51:58 : Babylon too will fall -- 51:59-64 : Jeremiah sends word to Babylon of her destruction -- 52:1-34 : A historical appendix -- Bibliography

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